RESEARCH ASSOCIATES:

1. Dr. Sri Ram Gopal Naraharishetty (ACRHEM RA, Sep 2009 to Nov 2009; Presently Assistant Professor, School of Physics, University of Hyderabad)

2. Late Ms. Sudha Nirmala (CSIR RA, 2013-2015)

3. Dr. Syed Hamad (CISR RA, April 2017- August 2018)

4. Dr. Yendeti Balaji (ACRHEM RA, August 2017- Present)

5. Dr. S. Abdul Kalam (ACRHEM RA, July 2019-March 2020); Presently post-doc at U. Mississippi, USA.

6. Dr. V.S. Vendamani (D.S. Kothari post-doctoral fellow, January 2020 – Present).

PhD. STUDENTS:

1. Mr. Debasis Swain (08ACPA05, ACRHEM, 2008-2014, Degree Awarded; Presently temporary faculty at Berhampur University, Odisha)
Thesis title: Ultrafast excited state dynamics and dispersion studies of optical nonlinearities in Porphycenes, Naphthobipyrroles, Phthalocyanines, and Porphyrins

2. Mr. Sunku Sreedhar (08ACPA01, ACRHEM, 2008-2014, Degree Awarded in April 2015, Post-doc in South Korea; Presently post-doc at IISC Bangalore)
Thesis title: Femtosecond and Nanosecond Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Studies of Energetic Materials

3. Mr. P. Gopala Krishna (09ACPA04, ACRHEM, 2009-2014, Degree Awarded in June 2015, Impact Researcher (post-doc) with Prof. Goda Lab, University of Tokyo; Presently CSIR RA at ACRHEM, University of Hyderabad)
Thesis title: Ultrafast laser ablation of metals in liquids for explosives detection using SERS and development of CARS experiments

4. Mr. Syed Hamad (09PHPH09, School of Physics, jointly with Dr. V.S. Ashok, School of Physics, 2009-2014, Degree Awarded in June 2015, Impact Researcher (post-doc) with Prof. Goda Lab, University of Tokyo; Presently at Gitam University as faculty)
Thesis title: Ultrafast Laser Fabricated Nanoparticles and Nanostructures: Characterization, Spectroscopy and Applications

5. Ms. P.T. Anusha (10ACPP05, ACRHEM, 2010-2015, Thesis submitted in November 2015; Degree Awarded in May 2016; NIT Calicut, Kerala at present; Presently working in Taiwan as a post-doctoral researcher)
Thesis title: Studies of Ultrafast Excited State Dynamics in Corroles, Naphthosapphyrins, Phthalocyanines and Porphyrins ).

6. Mr. E. Nageswara Rao (10ACPP09, ACRHEM, jointly with Dr. G. Manoj Kumar, 2010-2016, Thesis submitted in June 2016; Degree Awarded in December 2016; Presently working at ACRHEM, UoH)
Thesis title: Femtosecond and Nanosecond Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopic and Raman Studies of Nitroazoles

7. Mr. Abdul Kalam [13ACPA02, ACRHEM, 2013-2019; Thesis Submitted in November, 2018; Degeree awarded in April 2019; Presently working as a post-doc at ACRHEM, University of Hyderabad]
Thesis Title: Femtosecond LIBS Studies of Energetic Molecules in the Near and Standoff Regimes

8. Mr. Byram Chandu (14ACPA02, ACRHEM, 2014-2019; ); Synopsis submitted in July 2019; Thesis Submitted, October 2019.
Thesis Title: Femtosecond/Picosecond Laser Fabricated Diverse Nanocolloids/Nanostructures as SERS Substrates for Sensing Hazardous Materials

9. Ms. M.S.S. Bharathi (15ACPA09, ACRHEM, 2015-2020, Synopsis/Thesis submitted in June 2020; Degree awarded in December 2020; Presently working as a Project Assistant at UoH)
Thesis title: Rigid, Flexible SERS Substrates Fabricated using Femtosecond Laser Pulses for Explosives Detection

10.Ms. Somdatta Bhattacharya ((15ACPA02, ACRHEM, 2015-2020, Synopsis submitted in June 2020, Thesis submitted in November 2020)
Thesis title: Excited State Dynamics and Femtosecond Nonlinear Optical Studies of Novel Porphyrins, Phthalocyanines using Transient Absorption Spectroscopy and Z-scan Techniques

11. Mr. K. Nagakrishnakanth (15ACPA06, ACRHEM, 2015-2020, Synopsis submitted in July 2020, Thesis submitted in July 2020)
Thesis title: Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics and Third-order Nonlinear Optical Studies of Novel Organic, Inorganic and Energetic materials.

12. Mr. N. Lingmurthy (17ACPP01, ACRHEM, 2017-Present)

13. Mr. Dipanjan Banerjee (19ACPP02, ACRHEM, 2019-Present)
PMRF Fellow

14. Mr. Jagannath Rathod (19ACPP04, ACRHEM, 2019-Present)

15. Ms. Reshma Beeram (18ACPP01, ACRHEM, 2018-Present)

16. Ms. CH Bindu Madhuri (17ACPP02, ACRHEM, 2017-) On maternity leave since November 2018

PROJECT ASSISTANTS:

1. Ms. Madhura Somayaji (JRF, BRNS project, March 2015-August 2015) Left abruptly

2. Mr. K. Manish Kumar [UPE (with SVSN, SoP), July 2014-May 2015]

3. Ms. Rucha Deshpande (ACRHEM, July 2014- December 2014)

4. Mr. N. Lingamurthy (ACRHEM, BRNS project JRF, July 2015-July 2017)

5. Mr. Abdul Kalam (PA ACRHEM, November 2018-May 2019)

6. Mr. G. Sarang Dev (PA, ACRHEM, August 2019-Present)

7. Ms. M.S.S. Bharati (PA, ACRHEM, November 2020-January 2021)

SUMMER PROJECT STUDENTS:

1. Mr. S. Chaitanya Kumar, Department of Physics, IITG (2007)
2. Mr. G. Kurumurthy, School of Physics, UoH (DST project; 2008-2009)
3. Mr. K.L.N. Deepak, School of Physics, UoH (DST project; 2009-2010)
4. Ms. P.T. Anusha, ACRHEM, UoH (2009-10)
5. Mr. Shuvan T. Prashant (SSSU, AP) June-December 2010.
6. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Keshri (CUSAT, Kochi) June 2012.
7. Mr. J. Vamsee Krishna (UoH, Hyderabad) June-July 2012.
8. Mr. T. Pradeep Chakravarthy (UoH, Hyderabad) June-July 2012.
9. Ms. Bhavna Verma, ACRHEM, UoH (July 2013-September 2013)
10. Ms. Amala Elizabeth, ACRHEM, UoH (August 2013-September 2013)
11. Mr. T. Pradeep Chakravarthy (UoH, Hyderabad), January-April 2014.
12. Mr. Srimanta Maity (UoH, Hyderabad), January-April 2015.
13. Mr. Avik Mondal (UoH, Hyderabad), January-April 2015.
14. Mr. Oswald Franklin Peter (CUSAT, Cochin), April-May 2016.
15. Ms. Bhavya Muvva, (IISER Kolkata), June 2016-present.
16. Ms. Sini N.S. (Manipal University), January-June 2017.
17. Mr. Arjun V.S. Kidavu (University of Hyderabad) January-April 2017.
18. Ms. Anuradha Rout (Gitam University) May-June 2017.
19. Ms. Swadheentanaya Panda (Gitam University) May-June 2017.
20. Mr. Prabhu Krupa Chinmay Kumar (Gitam University) May-June 2017.
21. Ms. Indu Krishna (Amrita University, Coimbatore) June 2017.
22. Ms. Vaishnavi Sajeev (Amrita University, Coimbatore) June 2017.
23. Mr. Priyavardhan (University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad) June 2017-May 2018.
24. Ms. R.S. Surbhi (University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad) May 2018-June 2018.
25. Ms. Priya Lakshmi, 3rd-year undergraduate (Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering Guru Gobind Singh Educational Society's Technical Campus, Ranchi, India), February-March 2019.
26. Mr. Shivraj Maidur (KLE Institute of Technology, Hubbali, Karnataka) May-July 2019.
27. Mr. Dipanjan Banerjee (GITAM, Vizag, India) Jan-May 2020.

M.Sc. PROJECT STUDENTS

1. Mr. S. Chaitanya Kumar "Studies of Dye Doping in High Molecular Weight Polymers (PMMA) for applications in Micro-laser Fabrication," January-April, 2006. (IIT Guwahati)
2. Mr. Dhriti Sundar Ghosh "Non-linear optical properties of Zn phthalocyanines and free base phthalocyanines studied using a low power He-Ne laser," January-April, 2006. (IIT Guwahati)
3. Mr. Praveen Kolla "Nonlinear Optical Studies of Phthalocyanine Derivatives for Applications in Optical Limiting and Optical Switching," Jan-April, 2007. (IIT Guwahati)
4. Mr. Ch. Vamsi Krishna "Theoretical and experimental studies of nonlinear absorption in phthalocyanines using cw and nanosecond excitation," Jan-April, 2007. (IIT Guwahati)
5. Ms. P.T. Anusha (MG University, Kerala), "Nonlinear optical characterization of phthalocyanines using Z-scan and DFWM techniques," May-June, 2009. (University of Hyderabad)
6. Mr. Amit Kumar Prasad "Picosecond and nanosecond nonlinear optical characterization of CuPC and NiPc using Z-scan technique," May-June 2009. Submitted as a part of his Integrated M.Sc., CUSAT, project work (University of Hyderabad)
7. Ms. Sindhu Jammi (IISER Pune) "Lasers: Measuring the beam waist, divergence and pulse width of a femtosecond laser pulses," June-July 2010.
8. Mr. Sudhanshu Shekhar (CUSAT, Cochin), "Autocorrelation of femtosecond laser pulses," May-June 2010.
9. Ms. Rapolu Mounika (UoH, Hyderabad) "Nonlinear Optical Characterization of Phthalocyanines Using Z-Scan Technique," for I. MSc. degree in Physics Jan.-April 2013.
10. Mr. Radhakant Singh (CUSAT, Kochi), "Femtosecond and Picosecond Optical Nonlinearities of Zn-Phthalocyanines studied using Z-scan technique," January-April 2013.
11. Mr. T. Pradeep Chakravarthy (UoH, Hyderabad), "Energy dependent synthesis and study of nanostructures of copper and silicon," January-April 2014.
12. Mr. Srimanta Maity (UoH, Hyderabad), "Synthesis and characterization of silicon nanoparticles using femtosecond laser ablation in acetone," January-April 2015.
13. Mr. Avik Mondal (UoH, Hyderabad), "Synthesis and characterization of copper nanoparticles using femtosecond laser pulses in acetone environment," January-April 2015.
14. Mr. Arjun V.S. Kidavu (University of Hyderabad), "Fabrication of GaAs nanoparticles using ultrafast laser ablation in liquids," January-April 2017.
15. Ms. Vanga Shravani (Loyola Academy Degree & PG College, Secunderabad), "Preparation and characterization of gold nanoparticles for surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) studies," January-April 2017.
16. Ms. Sini Nanadath Shibu (M.Sc. Photonics, Manipal University, Karnataka), "Femtosecond laser ablation for the synthesis of plasmonic nanoparticles and their SERS applications," January-June 2017.
17. Mr. Dipanjan Banerjee (GITAM Institute of Science, Vizag, India), “Ultrafast laser ablated Silver nanowires for SERS and NLO characterization probes,” February 2018-April 2018.
18. Ms. Anuradha Rout (GITAM Institute of Science, Vizag, India), “SERS and NLO activity of ultrafast laser ablated Silver nanowires,” February 2018-April 2018.
19. Ms. T. Athira (M.Sc., Govt. College Madappally, Kerala) “Star and Rod Shaped Gold Nanoparticle Synthesis for SERS Application,” December 2019- January 2020.
20. Ms. N.V. Aswathi “Triangle and Rod Shaped Gold Nanoparticle Synthesis for SERS Application,” December 2019- January 2020.


B.Tech/M.Tech PROJECT STUDENTS

1. Ms. Shaily Yadav (Amity University)
2. Ms. Sweta Bhansali (Amity University)
3. Mr. Ankit Sharma (Amity University)
4. Mr. Akash Bachuuka (Amity University)